Results from HQ for February 2014

Greetings my human friends!

There's been ferocious fighting and some nifty footwork afoot. This monthly war is hotting up and my telescope has been whizzing across both battlefields ... marvelling at the bravery and patriotism of both armies fighters .. awestruck and humbled ... struck dumb with admiration at human tenacity and sheer cleverness.
Did I need to shake the mothballs and cobwebs out of the Stars & Stripes? Read the stats from HQ .. and see how it all panned out.

The Challenge
The USA fielded 30 magnificent players who won 7082 points = 47.5%
The UK & Co fielded a smaller army of 20 elite crack troopers, nabbing 7845 pts = 52.5%
Hah! Another show of UK & Co dominance on the Challenge battlefield! But .. is the great edifice toppling? Are the unconquerable and victorious UK & Co starting to show a chink in their armour? Last month the UK won this skirmish by 58.8% to my American buddies 41.2%. With so many fine American troopers enlisting the gap is narrowing. Take care UK ... an angry and determined American is a dangerous American. My Pengy radar tells me there are tough times ahead.

So, with the UK woadwearers marginally in the lead how did the fisticuffs on the Survivor manage to swing February's war?
The Survivor
The USA fielded 20 warriors who hotfooted across the battlefield and won 4783 points = 49.3%
Wow! I felt the earth shake then from my bomb shelter as a collective groan rolled across the Atlantic. Or it could have been a sigh of relief from the other opposite coastline.
The UK hit squad of 19 nabbed a winning 4911 pts = 50.7%!

Of course, as a pacifist penguin I find this intriguing ... and deadly exciting in a kind of fatal adrenalin rush kind of way.
The final result for February's War.
The UK & Co = 51.6% of the spoils of war.
The USA = 48.4% ....  of the crumbs.

So what does this mean? Well ... the USA lost .. but is the reign of UK supremacy slowly but inexorably coming to an end? Last month the Old Empire won by a margin of 8% ... and now it's been whittled down to a measly 3.2%. At this rate can we expect to see a USA victory in March or April?  I for one would be proud to hoist the Stars & Stripes .. it's been folded in mothballs for an awful long time and needs a good airing.
Which reminds me ... whilst spanning with my telescope I spotted miffy42 dart onto the battlefield, join in the fray ... and dart off again. Miffy you can not go AWOL .. it's not allowed, not when your country needs you... is clearly to go to need all its brave warriors fully kitted out in combat fatigues and wading into the fray ....  and it will do soon, if not imminently  ... for my telescope also spotted Clamking is back. He wriggled under the radar and has re-enlisted. The UK's finest General jules44 is valiantly leading the troops but has had her throne nicked by RJ (and he won't give it back).... and with so many top USA fighters joining the ranks they are becoming a force to be reckoned with.

And now .. the battlelines have been drawn once again ... everyone shrug into your flak jacket, arm yourselves, grit your teeth, clench your scrolling mouse and get into them trenches. This is WAR!
I think you're all wonderful  by the way ... and thanks to you all for making this such a fun, good-spirited and friendly fight.